Fleurieu Living Magazine

Making grenache great again

Mic drop. This got me thinking: when was the last time, if ever, that the ubiquitous shiraz played second fiddle to grenache? To answer this and more, I decided to go on a journey into the history books to tell the almost two hundred year old story of grenache in our beautiful region.

Grenache’s story, it turns out, is very much tied to the changing palates of the local, national and international wine drinker from the very beginning of the Australian wine industry. Grenache made its way to Australia via

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